30 Ways to Weave a Potholder: Color Patterns in Plain Weave for the Potholder Loom (Weaving on the Potholder Loom)

Patterns look easy.

Fuzzy loops used and patterns looked messy and lacked sharpness. Patterns can be followed by using the colors and sequence examples on the sides of the photos.

There are two basic parts of successful potholder crafting: the technical skill and the creative vision. You may master the form but struggle when designing your project. The result is that you end up creating the same pattern over and over, unable to visualize, much less conceptualize, new patterns.Author/crafter Wendy Goerl comes to the rescue with 30 full color patterns and potholder photos for the creatively challenged. I love this work, and give her 5 stars for seeing a need and meeting it in a stripped down, easily accessed, colorful and portable format. Even better, she goes way behind the standard designs of Pinwheel, Puzzle Pieces, Tic-Tac-Toe, Checkers, Classic, Fiesta, Hound’s Tooth and Confetti to unleash strikingly wild and gorgeous designs for the traditionally staid potholder pattern. After following her page-by-page guide, using whatever colored skeins tickle your fancy, you won’t want to dirty them on such pedestrian duties as kitchen work. These utilitarian pieces become works of art.Self publishing this work is an act of creative genius dsiplaying her considerable technical skills. I wish she had named her stunning designs. My favorite was #29. For the serious and the beginner potholder enthusiast, this is a must-buy potholder reference book.Note: Goerl's guide gave me the confidence to reimagine some of her designs. Picture represents my interpretation of her pattern #25.

Love it

The book is ridiculously small, and contains nothing more than very basic info you could get for free from watching YouTube videos. Wish I had saved my money for one of the better books.

Lliked the variety of pattern suggestions. Made hotpads to match my son's new kitchen. The design of the hot pad was rather complex--looks very nice in his kitchen. Would not have come up with this pattern on my own.

Has some diagrams, just basic weaving. No different ways to do the loops to create cool patterns. A bust of a book.😒😣

I think this is an excellent booklet. There are way more patterns than I thought if when I was avidly weaving potholders as a child, but surprisingly, I made quite a few patterns that are omitted from this booklet. I had NO problem seeing the photos and patterns. How to make these is quite clear. An excellent inspiration tool!

Been having fun doing the different patterns. Going to make a rug out of all of the pieces.

Very useful little book. It clearly explains how to make the weave designs by means of colour-codes squares along the top and down the side of each image. It also explains how to get your potholder off the loom without it unravelling. I found the "Lace Method " easiest to do, but you will need a metal crochet hook ( 4 mm) to do it. The child's kit I bought had a soft plastic hook which was useless.

If you have bought a potholder loom (which are expensive to get hold of in this country; they are popular in the U.S.) the leaflet that comes with the potholder will give you ideas of patterns. The internet is also a good source of pattern ideas. This booklet is fine, but probably not necessary, because of the other source of patterns mentioned.

As a beginner I thought this book would help but find I still have tension problems.The books practicality to any weaver seems instructive.